Re: enable backup xp through samba after amanda installed

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Allen Liu --- work wrote: I didn't have samba installed when I installed amanda, is there any way to add it without re-configure/make amanda ? No, you have to recompile. This is one of those hardcoded features in amanda that some people complain about. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation

Re: no incremental backups when using gnu tar

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Madhvi Gokool wrote: define dumptype high-tar { root-tar comment partitions dumped with tar priority high dumpcycle 0 compress none index } excert from disklist localhost /etc/mrtg high-tar ns01/home/nfsuser high-tar Excerpt from a log SUCCESS dumper ns01 /home/nfsuser

Holding disk

2004-02-11 Thread Madhvi Gokool
Hello How can I enable level 0 backups to the holding disk ( I have enough hard disk space) ? Regards Madhvi

Re: no incremental backups when using gnu tar

2004-02-11 Thread Madhvi Gokool
[EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]$ amadmin DailySet1 disklist localhost /etc/mrtg line 7: host localhost: interface default disk /etc/mrtg: program GNUTAR priority 2 dumpcycle 0 maxdumps 1 strategy NOINC compress NONE auth BSD

How do I use Amanda without tape/tapechanger ?

2004-02-11 Thread Henning . Grosskurth
Hi fellows, I'm rather new to amanda, so forgive me if this question ist simple ;-) Since the tape-device I was to use does not work anymore, I now have to backup to harddisk. The problem is: HOW can I get amanda to write backups to harddisk? I've tried telling it that there is no tape-device,

Re: How do I use Amanda without tape/tapechanger ?

2004-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004 at 11:15 you wrote to amanda-users: HGmd I was told that there IS a way to get amanda to work without tapes, but I HGmd can't find it ... HGmd Hope someone can help me :-) Look into the docs-directory of your amanda-tarball, there is a file

Re: Holding disk

2004-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Madhvi Gokool, on Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004 at 10:18 you wrote to amanda-users: MG Hello MG How can I enable level 0 backups to the holding disk ( I have enough hard MG disk space) ? MG Regards MG Madhvi Lookup the example amanda.conf. Look for the parameter reserve, it is described like:

AW: How do I use Amanda without tape/tapechanger ?

2004-02-11 Thread Henning . Grosskurth
Hello Stefan, thanks a lot for that hint, what I've read so far sounds very good!! Just one more question: where do I get the changer-script chg-disk from ? Best regards, Henning P.S.: Do you perhaps speak German? ;-) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: AW: How do I use Amanda without tape/tapechanger ?

2004-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004 at 12:27 you wrote to amanda-users: HGmd Hello Stefan, HGmd thanks a lot for that hint, what I've read so far sounds very good!! HGmd Just one more question: where do I get the changer-script chg-disk from ? chg-disk is part of the current

User Friendly Reports

2004-02-11 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi Is there a way to change amanda that se gives size in meg or gig and not in kilo. This following line is realy useless. solo /u/oscar3 0 35932201939616 54.0 52:22 617.2 52:23 617.2 The big number is suppose to be two different numbers. Groete -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis Chief

Re: User Friendly Reports

2004-02-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 at 2:22pm, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote This following line is realy useless. solo /u/oscar3 0 35932201939616 54.0 52:22 617.2 52:23 617.2 The big number is suppose to be two different numbers. To fix that, look at the columnspec parameter in amanda.conf.

Re: User Friendly Reports

2004-02-11 Thread JC Simonetti
The parameter columnspec from amanda.conf allows you to resize the columns. I don't know if you can print out sizes in Gb, but this solution will allow you to distinguish the 2 figures. In my case I wouldn't like the printout in Gb because I use some sotware after Amanda to analyse and compute

Re: no incremental backups when using gnu tar

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Madhvi Gokool wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]$ amadmin DailySet1 disklist localhost /etc/mrtg line 7: host localhost: interface default disk /etc/mrtg: program GNUTAR priority 2 dumpcycle 0 maxdumps 1 strategy NOINC compress NONE

Re: no incremental backups when using gnu tar

2004-02-11 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Why do you set the strategy to NOINC if you want incremental, you should set it to STANDARD. Jean-Louis On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:21:54PM +0400, Madhvi Gokool wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]$ amadmin DailySet1 disklist localhost /etc/mrtg line 7: host localhost: interface

dumptypes

2004-02-11 Thread Dege, Robert C.
I noticed something odd today while maintaining my amanda server, and I seek some advise. My amanda server is slow (350MHz CPU), so most of the dump are configured so that the clients compress the data. The global dumptype is setup with compress client best. For slower systems, I override the

Re: dumptypes

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Bijnens
Dege, Robert C. wrote: So my question is, why am I seeing all of these gzip processes on the amanda server? I thought they were supposed to be residing on the client. Is It's the gzip --best of the indexes. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16 397.511

Re: dumptypes

2004-02-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 at 6:58am, Dege, Robert C. wrote So my question is, why am I seeing all of these gzip processes on the amanda server? I thought they were supposed to be residing on the client. Is there anyway to determine what system dump is causing the compression to reside on the

amverify fails for large (?) samba share

2004-02-11 Thread Vincent GRENET
result. I suspected the tape, and changed it. The verify after the next backup returned the same problem: -- amverify daily Wed Feb 11 01:55:56 CET 2004 Using device /dev/nst0 Volume daily08, Date 20040211 Checked localhost._boot.20040211.0 Checked localhost._home.20040211.4 Checked

script to calculate tape parameters

2004-02-11 Thread Kurt Yoder
Hello list I wasn't sure I understood how to set the Amanda dumpcycle, runspercycle, runtapes, and tapecycle correctly, so I wrote a small perl script to check my logic. It asks a few questions about the number of backups within a certain time period, whether a changer will be used, etc, and then

Re: script to calculate tape parameters

2004-02-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Kurt, on Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004 at 17:25 you wrote to amanda-users: KY Hello list KY I wasn't sure I understood how to set the Amanda dumpcycle, runspercycle, KY runtapes, and tapecycle correctly, so I wrote a small perl script to check my KY logic. It asks a few questions about the

Re: amverify fails for large (?) samba share

2004-02-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:06:15PM +0100, Vincent GRENET wrote: [error from amverify] The amanda server runs RHS 7.3, amanda 2.4.2p2, gnu tar 1.13.19, samba 2.0.7. Is that gtar old enough to be a problem, or is 1.13.19 known to work? -- | | /\ |-_|/ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.

Unable to create temporary directory message

2004-02-11 Thread Fran Fabrizio
I've started to get this from one of the Solaris clients I backup. There's nothing wrong with /tmp, I can create /tmp/foo just fine as the amanda user, not a disk space issue, etc... I cannot find this error message anywhere in the Amanda source. Does anyone know what's throwing this and why?

Re: Unable to create temporary directory message

2004-02-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:16:59PM -0600, Fran Fabrizio wrote: I've started to get this from one of the Solaris clients I backup. There's nothing wrong with /tmp, I can create /tmp/foo just fine as the amanda user, not a disk space issue, etc... I cannot find this error message anywhere

Re: Unable to create temporary directory message

2004-02-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:16:59PM -0600, Fran Fabrizio wrote: ? Unable to create temporary directory in any of the directories listed below: [...] It's ufsdump saying this. The leading ?'s are a clue -- Amanda prepends them to messages from the dump program that it doesn't recognize (they

Re: Unable to create temporary directory message

2004-02-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:39:11PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:16:59PM -0600, Fran Fabrizio wrote: ? Unable to create temporary directory in any of the directories listed below: [...] It's ufsdump saying this. The leading ?'s are a clue -- Amanda prepends

Changing Amanda server

2004-02-11 Thread Robert L Becker Jr
I haven't seen this question in the list or archives. How do I gracefully move amanda databases from one (Irix) server to a new one (Linux). I expect to handle the build and configuration on the new host. I'll be moving our Exabyte jukebox from old to new host. Once the hardware and build dances

Re: Changing Amanda server

2004-02-11 Thread Frank Smith
--On Wednesday, February 11, 2004 21:22:14 -0500 Robert L Becker Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't seen this question in the list or archives. How do I gracefully move amanda databases from one (Irix) server to a new one (Linux). I expect to handle the build and configuration on the new

Re: Changing Amanda server

2004-02-11 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:22:14PM -0500, Robert L Becker Jr wrote: I haven't seen this question in the list or archives. How do I gracefully move amanda databases from one (Irix) server to a new one (Linux). I expect to handle the build and configuration on the new host. I'll be moving our

Re: Unable to create temporary directory message

2004-02-11 Thread Uwe Beger
Didn't think too much about the problem. /tmp is usually not a normal filesystem on a machine with solaris OS, but works as a RAMDISK. This might be problematic for amanda since each reboot creates /tmp from scratch. Uwe. On Thursday 12 February 2004 02:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Feb 11,